Resources for Homeschoolers
Preschool and Kindergarten Resources
Coloring Pages
A homeschooling kindergarten page, with learning objectives, lesson plans, alphabet-based themes, and a kindergarten-at-home message board.
Detailed Montessori preschool lesson plans and instructions for making teaching materials, intended for homeschoolers and classrooms alike, for children ages 2-5.
Interesting reading about learning to read.
Simple, fun, everyday math activities a parent can share with a child through daily living; for children from 5-13, annotated by age level.
The Creative Curriculum Classroom
Detailed notes about ten interest areas for preschool and kindergarten, with ideas for setting up learning centers and curriculum objectives for their use.
A thematic, whole language approach to kindergarten, offering learning objectives, themed units with associated internet resources, and alphabet-based, cross-curricular, learning center ideas.
Fully integrated monthly curriculum outlines and corresponding lesson plans, sorting cards to print out, extensive teaching tips with sample schedules and lesson plan forms, and more.
The Chalkboard: Early Childhood Teaching Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten
Activities for every area of the curriculum, plus kindergarten objectives (under Expectations of 3, 4, and 5 year olds), tips on how to nurture different learners, teaching tips, links, and more.
Great ideas and activities for early childhood education, with message boards, monthly newsletter, links, chat, and lots of information.
Ideas submitted by site users to implement across the preschool curriculum; includes ideas for thematic units, teaching tips, message boards and chat, a bookstore, and preschool humor.
Gryphon House Learning Activities
Tons of fun learning activities and ideas for educators, excerpted from the teaching resource books published by Gryphon Books.
Early childhood activities and lessons, craft recipes, coloring pages, resources, parenting and teaching tips, and a cyber-fridge to display your little one's artwork.
Enchanted Learning Preschool Pages
Kindercrafts, an alphabet book, games and activities, a picture dictionary, coloring pages, and jokes.
Tons of fun, educational activities covering pre-math, pre-reading, science, art, motor skills, listening, games projects, and lots more; fully searchable.
Find your child's favorite PBS kids' show pages here for fun and games; browse special preschool pages for arts and crafts, music and movement, and language activities; or follow the link to teaching resources for PreK-12, where you can search by grade level, topic, or keyword.
Children's author and illustrator Jan Brett has a wonderful website, featuring literature-based enrichment activities, an illustrated alphabet, activities and coloring pages, a screensaver, postcards, a RealPlayer "Hedge-a-gram", and videos. This is a wonderful site.
Favorite coloring pages for each letter of the alphabet, numbers, shapes, and opposites.
Paper crafts, activity sheets, stories, games, famous artist pages, and coloring sheets, including alphabet letters and numbers especially for preschoolers. Don't miss the art techniques and lesson plans for teachers!
Winnie the Pooh's Coloring Pages
Fifty coloring pages devoted to the beloved Pooh-bear and his friends. Click on the links at the bottom of the page to visit other sections of this extensive and wonderful site.
Hundreds of coloring pages, activity sheets, mini-books to make, and more, all for wee ones.
Worksheets UnlimitedMarsha has developed a nice selection of preschool worksheets for Teaching Reading at Home in 100 Easy Lessons, StartWrite number and alphabet worksheets, and worksheets for math, reading, shapes and patterns. She's also created a large variety of flashcards, certificates, a printable calendar form, and lesson plan forms.
Thirty-five activity pages, featuring mazes, matching, dot-to-dot, sorting, and more.
Cyber-surfin' Grandma's Electronic Coloring Book
Dozens of coloring pages, mostly on animal and holiday themes; some activity pages and color-by-number pages are included as well.
Dozens of wildflower coloring pages; great for a little one's nature notebook!
Coloring pages devoted to common birds; great for a little one's nature notebook!
Billy Bear's Print and Play Page
Twenty-eight coloring pages, plus fourteen activity, papercraft, and game pages to print.
DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids
Lots of things to print, cut and glue with your preschooler.
Need some ideas for keeping the little ones busy while you work with their older siblings? Paula's Archives has a great list to try!
